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Re:The PyCon Incident by oh_sigh on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:22PM (#5411364)
If you wanted your scenario to be equivalent, you should have had the men making jokes about the size of their dicks.

If the two men at PyCon were making jokes about how virgin vaginas were the best, I don't think they would be getting the outpouring of support that they seem to be getting from the tech community.

You're very bad at crafting illuminating tales.

Re:The PyCon Incident by wpietri on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:28PM (#5411418)
I wasn't trying to sketch an equivalent situation.

He said he couldn't understand why the jokes were a problem. I tried to help him understand. In particular, to viscerally understand the experience of being unsafe, and how a joke can contribute to that.

Re:The PyCon Incident by oh_sigh on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:31PM (#5411434)
Please learn to read more carefully.

He said he didn't understand why these "jokes" are supposed to be offensive to women. He did not say why any jokes are supposed to be offensive to women.

Re:The PyCon Incident by wpietri on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:14PM (#5412607)
I understood that, and that is indeed the question I tried to answer.